VIDEO: Green-Wood recreates Revolutionary War landscape to commemorate the Battle of Brooklyn
With Revolutionary War-era cannons, spirited demonstrations of artillery and dozens of re-enactors portraying American and British troops, Green-Wood Cemetery commemorated the 242nd anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn on Sunday.
Back on Aug. 27, 1776, a cemetery area, now known as Green-Wood Battle Hill, was the scenario of the largest battle of the American Revolution and the first battle in U.S. history after the Declaration of Independence.
In front of an enthusiastic crowd, re-enactors representing the American and British soldiers lined up against each other to demonstrate the weaponry and battlefield tactics of the late 1770s.